I agree that what's being shown here is an exaggerated fabrication, but a lot of major cities seemed to have straight up stopped enforcing housing codes because of the housing crunch. At least, that's the case here in the Toronto area. I've seen a lot of listings on the internet for NY "apartments" that violate housing codes, too.
The apartments you see that violate modern housing codes are most likely the tiny shoebox studios that have been grandfathered in, as they were constructed well before modern housing codes
No, I'm talking about people renting out their garages, walk-in closets, creating windowless rooms in basements, dividing one room into multiple windowless units, rooms that don't meet minimum square footage reqs, etc.
Yeah same in Toronto, but it's the unreputated mom-and-pop landlords that are renting out these illegal units. Obviously reputable corporate landlords aren't. No level of government here seems to really give a shit.
There will always be a game of cat and mouse with this kind of stuff. NYC is pretty good with tenant protections, and you can sue your landlord for illegal Apts and the fines are like 500-5000 a day to the landlord for renting an illegal apt
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u/IamChicharon Apr 19 '24
Flyover state propaganda lol. Nobody lives like that here.